Dry Fly 'Expert'

Not so delightful if you were ever as slow as I was this evening in working out what on Earth the fish had suddenly turned their attention...

Here, between the trailing dead twigs and the overhanging sawn off branch, is "the Spot" where the fly has to fit inside, land gen...

Forgot the camera again!  I must stop rushing about...  Sorry again about the quality of the 'phone photos! There were spinners drifting...

The Chatsworth Country Fair has devised a way to keep the Riff Raff out.  They put the price beyond the reach of ordinary folk.  Imagine pay...

Rushed out late this evening forgetting the camera so had to revert to the telephone, please forgive the poor quality of the photographs.  Y...

Rightly or wrongly your faithful correspondent has been interfering with Nature again .  The only defence is that the injury to this Engl...

Last night it went cold and dark by 9 o'clock.  Sport was good but when the fly has finally become invisible, the dry fly angler has to ...

Here is a traitor! I thought I had weeded out all the soft hooks from a bad batch I bought a decade ago.  I used to love these arrow point...

How many of you feel your heart sinking when a mist descends over the river? It is hardly a boost to one's confidence.  Nevertheless, ...

A fascinating evening after only being able to get out at 7.30 p.m.  The fish were eating olives and the Kite's Imperial was the fly of...

... conditions is pretty normal and done by most of us to some degree or other, if only when we swap flies for example.  It is all too eas...

Summer is changing and the late fishing angler has already noticed "the nights are drawing in"! The Mother river has been hard of...

This Wednesday it was after 8.30 pm when Henry and his faithful servant managed to get out, rushing, with little time, the little pocket cam...

One of the nastiest, stomach knotting feelings is when you lose a fly... IN A FISH!  (We all do it occasionally don't we?)  The discomfo...

An evening of fun with a blonde is not a bad thing, usually.  If the blonde is a bit glittery, evening might be the only time that fun is to...